This is amazing. There’s a great use of space and the editing keeps the action flowing nicely
Category: inspiration
Monday post series #2: photoshoots I’ve loved
Here’s the second installment of my Monday post series: photoshoots I’ve loved.
This series is by Txema Yeste for Numero China April 2012 issue. This is amazing. The images are quite avant-garde and are dark and Gothic but are colourful and sensual at the same time. The images have quite an experimental feel to them, which is probably why I love them so much.
Wednesday post series #1: what inspires me at the moment
Following on from yesterday’s post about series and the like, here is the first of my Wednesday posts. I’m shooting my friends Chesney and Conor in studio tomorrow so therefore this post is about what I’ve been looking at for ideas. I’ve been thinking a lot about low-key lighting and about how dramatic it can look. I love low-key lighting, how getting the shadows and light just right can either make or break a portrait. The following are photos I’ve been looking at for inspiration.
I’m probably gonna go more along the route of the last photo and add some glitter into the image aswell, just to see how it goes. I’ll post up some photos when they’re done!
Tuesday post series #1: videos I’ve loved
I have no words to describe how incredible this video is. It’s shot on DSLRs and it’s about how creative people make work and how the creative industries are working today. It’s so inspiring. It probably fueled my ambition to become a film-maker even more after seeing how good this was. It’s just… wow. <3
Monday post series #1: photoshoots I’ve loved
Here’s the first of my Monday post series: photo shoots I’ve loved. This one is “Disturbed Dream Captures” by Kevin Carrado. This shoot is absolutely amazing. I’m a little obsessed with the notion of vulnerability and isolation in photography so this was right up my alley! Using frames within photographs is also another fascination of mine so I absolutely love this series! The images use a muted colour palette and are slightly dystopian, with fragmented bodies climbing into and out of frames. They have a surrealist nature to them so they look almost like a Dali painting. 
New post series: Friday Bucket list #1
I’ve been horrible and neglecting this blog of late so I’ve gotten myself organised I’m starting a blogging series. One post type for Monday through Friday. Monday’s will be photo-shoots I’ve loved, Tuesday will be videos I’ve loved, Wednesday will be what’s inspiring me to make work at the moment, Thursday will be updates on my life (business venture, internship, college, holidays etc.) and finally, as you can see, Friday will be the things on my “bucket list” (things I’ve always wanted to do).
I’ve recently discovered the Day Zero Project, a website that lets you catalog “101 Things In a 1001 Days” and other things like things you want to do “someday” and things you’ve already done. I’m gonna work through the enumerated list one by one, and blog about each thing weekly. (That will keep me busy, there’s 142 things on the list!).
1. Fill a sketchbook with drawings
This is probably gonna be hard as I haven’t even picked up a drawing pencil since I did art in school about 5 years ago. I’m actually gonna try take art classes soon though so I’ll keep updates as to how that’s going.
For now though, I’m gonna share some sketchbook inspiration I’ve found:
Hopefully I can keep up with this. If I do, I’ll probably turn it into an art journal of some kind. I’ve been wanting to do something like that for so long and just never got around to it. Even after I bought art supplies and sketchbooks while I was in Boston last summer (Blicks Art Supplies FTW :D)
“Devoillee” Numero April 2012
The Numero spring 2012 fashion shoot is an ethereal exposition of spring style. The images are grainy and soft-foucsed, emphasising the model and the textures of the clothes. Wafts of chiffon frame the model and act as a sort of window to view the model through (In this, the shoot almost has a voyeuristic feel to it). The model herself adds contrast to the images, as her gaze is harsh and intense, contrasting with the rest of the image.
Sun Should Be A Girl – Marta Streng
I came across this fashion shoot a couple of weeks ago and I’ve only had the time to blog about it now. My birthday was two weeks ago & I’ll have a blog post up about that soon too. For now though…
“Sun Should Be A Girl” is a fashion editorial by Marta Streng. This shoot has everything that I’m obsessed with and love in photography right now: bokeh, tough clothing, heavy makeup, lens flare and a juxtaposition of the model and the interplay of light (The way the photographs are composed, you would expect to see something a lot more feminine and girly photographed), so you can understand my squeal of delight when I came across it a couple of weeks ago. The shoot is grungey: dirty streets and buildings compliment the model’s clothes, pose and makeup, while the interplay of light gives the photographs a feminine feel.
Don’t Touch My Universe
I came across this fashion shoot the other day on the Trend Hunter blog and was completely blown away. It was shot by Frank Bayn and Steff Rosenberger-Ochs (what an amazing surname!). The images feature a model clad in couture and staring dreamily at the camera, looking for all the world a spoiled little brat. The viewer at first looks at the model’s haughty expression and suggestive pose and then notices scenes of destruction and mayhem in the windows (I think they’re mirrors and only a motif of windows… but someone correct me if I’m wrong) behind the model. It is almost as if the model is frozen in time and doesn’t notice the destruction around her. The title “Don’t Touch…” seems to say that the model doesn’t want the luxury and prestige portrayed in the photographs to go away and wants to be self-absorbed and oblivious forever. I think this is also saying that there are more important things to be worrying about than looking good, which is a breath of fresh air in this consumerist, “buy, buy, buy”, “more, more, more” culture we have.
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection
I had a day off from college today so I decided to visit the Irish Museum of Modern Art to see the new exhibition, Conversations. After getting lost and wandering around the trendy apartments in south quarter (and daydreaming about how we wanted to live there…), we finally found the IMMA. It was well worth the wandering around though, I was literally in awe at the images. I literally turned into “photography fan-girl”, much to my boyfriend’s dismay. I walked around going: “THEY HAVE A LANGE PHOTO! THEY HAVE A SOTH PHOTO!” and squealing when I saw photographer’s works that I admired. I loved all the photographs, some that I knew, from photographers I know and some that I’ve never seen, from photographers I didn’t know. The arrangement of the images played a big part in their meaning, they were placed in “conversation” with each-other, a photograph from the 1800’s alongside a photograph from 2003. The images complement each-other in a way you wouldn’t expect.
From the IMMA website: “Modern works are juxtaposed with older works, European with American, and staged subjects with documentary images. These conversations create unique visual groupings, including images of visitors responding to art in museums, such as Thomas Struth’s Audience 4 (2004), which shows people gazing upward at Michelangelo’s statue of David at the Academia Gallery in Florence, and Musée du Louvre 4, Paris (1989), where visitors contemplate Théodore Géricault’s famous Raft of the Medusa in a Louvre gallery.”
The stand-out images for me were:
Neeta Madahar’s image “Sustenance 104, 2003”
Toni Schnider’s image “Switched”
David Hillard’s image “Dad”
Vera Lutter’s image “135 LaSalle Street, Chicago, VI”
The exhibition is produced by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and runs til the 22nd of May at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Military Road, Kilmanham Dublin.
Aisling Keavey 